Neonode has introduced a new type of touch screen

A couple of days ago, the Neonode company, well known in the mobile device market, introduced a working concept touchscreen display of a new type, which had previously been spoken about quite often by company representatives. Compared with earlier models of display with technology from Neonode, the new display is notable for increased sensitivity, accuracy, speed of response to pressing and other improved features. If a company manages to promote a truly working and practical sample of its display to the mobile device market, then the sphere of touch display production can change quite a lot.

Neonode zForce, which is the name given to the new technology, uses a system of infrared LEDs, photo cells and other types of sensors to determine the degree of depression of the display. That is, zForce allows you to determine not only the place of depression, but also the force of depression, which will allow the developer of mobile hardware and software to create new devices that can respond to a greater number of “stimuli” than before.
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In addition to the ability to determine the pressing force (some other sensors are capable of this), the zForce responds quite clearly to pressing. The update is about 1000 times per second, and the first concept testers have already appreciated this advantage of the display. There is practically no delay between pressing and the response of the device to this pressing. It is worth recalling that the company has been working on this technology for several years, introducing preliminary concepts into its devices (electronic readers and other devices). But only now, apparently, zForce can already be used in mass production.

In addition to the display, the company also presented something like a frame that determines the position of human fingers in space. In other words, the frame can act almost the same as the touchscreen display, only without glass. This technology is called Stargate. Unfortunately, it is still unclear when all this will get a practical implementation, so it may well be that it will take a long time to wait. And it's a pity - because the technology is very promising.

By the way, besides the pictures, there is a video with a demonstration of the work of this technology. You can watch the video from the original source, unfortunately, you cannot insert a video from engadget into this post.

Via engadget